Permaculture Garden Tour July 2023
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2023
- Join me on a tour of my permaculture homestead. It has rained a lot for most of July (and a lot of June too) and so the garden is not quite as I had hoped for this time of year.
Featuring the realities of gardening during a cool, wet summer, this video is the antidote to picture-perfect gardening!
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That was absolutely delightful. I garden in Bucks and have had a good year for all fruit, outside tomatoes, fennel and runner beans but have had to water everything in June and July. So I appreciate seeing someone else making decisions to just leave it alone unless you can make one action that gives you a big step forward in the future. For me that’s been watering tomatoes beans and fruit trees with what rain water I’ve collected and keeping slug environments down to a minimum. I’ve built a 2nd frog pool out of an old paper bin which is full of frogs already and just edging the grass around the beds. Love what you’re doing and looking forward to more videos. Thanks Stephanie.
Thank you so much. I love how the frogs have already found your new pool for them. Wildlife gardening is the best.
Your garden is very beautiful. like a jungle. That's the way it should be. Many Greetings from Vienna.🌱
Thank you so much. I hear Vienna is very beautiful
Thanks for keeping it real Stephanie, especially with the weeds and slug damage. Here in southern Scotland its hardly stopped raining except for the odd hour. I havent got a lot done and like you the weeds will have to wait. My courgette harvest is very slow too and something is nibbling them! Tomatoes are still green but I have had some wonderful cabbages! I remember telling you about my wildlife pond a while back....no frogs or anything for 3 years....well we have newts so that makes me very happy. How is your pond doing? Really enjoyed the video.
newts - how lovely! We had some frog spawn in the spring, and I spotted a frog too, but have no idea whether the spawn survived to become froglets. The pond is looking good, I recently added two waterlilies. Actually it was three, but I dropped one which fell to the bottom of the pond & I am not sure whether it will survive ...!
Lovely video Steph, and your garden is looking lush despite the challenging weather. My tomatoes are finally starting to ripen, but the larger fruited varieties have been struggling to set fruit. I think it's the lack of light and warmth, as it's happening in both the polytunnel and outdoors. Thank goodness for the tough cherry varieties that soldier on regardless! I planted out some brassica seedlings and they all got eaten by slugs overnight, so I'm growing the rest on in the polytunnel until they're hopefully big enough to stand a chance. What a challenging season! Sending you tomato ripening vibes!
The diffused light on cloudy days makes for lovely footage. Those cages for the fruit and brassicas are an excellent idea! If you don't mind killing slugs and snails you can set up a beer trap for them, or get ducks to eat them for you. Gardeners in the USA refer to the tomato side shoots as "suckers". The end with the sound of the rain was very soothing. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you - and for tip about "suckers".
I don't use slug beer traps. It's a grim death and they can also drown other insects too. I'll be able to clear the area around the cage this autumn/winter, so hopefully the slugs will relocate then
Hello Stephanie from Nova Scotia, Canada! We've had very similar weather to want you're experiencing but the sun has finally started to shine the last week or so. My garden looked like a jungle, and the slugs and snails were the happiest beings on the planet. They ate every squash flower that was being produced. Not sure how much of a pepper harvest I'll get -- the plants just didn't have the sunshine that they needed but they're putting on some growth now. And the tomatoes are now starting to flower and produce some tiny fruits -- nothing near any ripening stage at all. Hoping the warmth lasts through September and into October! Hoping for sunshine for you as well :) !
It's certainly marvellous weather for slugs and snails. Glad you've had some sunshine. Raining here again today but looking hopeful for later in the week.
Thanks so much for showing the reality of gardening, very refreshing! The garden here at shankill castle looks in many ways the same. Growth is really slowing down in all the rain and the weeds are difficult to control. But some plants are doing great, tomatoes for example! :)
Hello Miriam, lovely to hear from you. I was thinking about Shankill the other day. Glad your tomatoes are doing well. I could trade you for some cucumbers?! We are getting about 6 a day just now.....!!
Nice video Stef, thanks for sharing❤
Thank you
The garden looks great i don't think a few weeds matter as long as they don't impact on the crops, I have been harvesting beans and tomatoes very yummy😋
Thank you Penny. I need to weed the beds so the new plantings, which will hopefully go in this week, will thrive. I let the weeds to their wild weedy thing in the wild areas. I now have one tomato that is almost (but not quite!) red.
Thanks for showing a real garden in a no-so-great weather year.. I'm in Northern CA. While parts of CA have been sweltering (it was 117 F at my sister's house in the desert), it has been in the 60s here with an occasional low 70s. The seedlings are growing very slowly and nothing is producing except an occasional zucchini and a few green tomatoes. The winter squash, however, seem to be doing fine now that they're in the ground. I have 6 varieties and four of them are setting fruit.
Thank you Harriette. Gosh, that is cool for northern CA in the summertime
Hello from Sweden. Your garden looks great to me! We had a very dry June and a very cold and rainy July, with lots of strong winds, much like you. The garden is Not Happy, the only thing really thriving are the snails... Let´s hope for a long, mild autumn so things can mature before winter.
Oh I so agree, let's hope for a beautiful sunshiney with normal amounts of rain autumn!
Regardless your garden is looking beautiful ❤️
Thank you so much
From New Zealand - last season was up and down like you have at the moment, I got no courgettes at all from 3 plants. It's Winter here and I have soft drink plastic bottles over some of my seedling brassicas that were being hit by snails, it worked a treat. Starting to seed sort and experimenting this year. I have turmeric in a tub for the first time and will also have ginger in another tub when I get some compost / grow mix. Take care and love your garden =-)
Thank you Lorraine. I've not had much success with turmeric here (so far!) but have some ginger growing in a pot from some sprouting ginger.
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Thanks Stephanie for the tour - your garden looks beautiful. Frustrating with unusual weather but I get it! Here in southern australia it's supposed to be winter but we are getting quite warm weather and plants are starting to flower early. I even had my first snake appearing in the garden yesterday - 3 months earlier than I usually spot my first one! Good luck with the rest of the season!! Cheers Linda
Thank you. There's certainly some weird weather around.
We’re having heat and a drought. South central BC, Canada. Today is under 30° C and it’s cloudy sort of, mostly haze from forest fires. But we garden and we keep gardening. All of us are facing weird conditions this year. This really does require nimble adaptation! 🇨🇦❤️👍👩🌾🇨🇦🍁🍁. I’ve noticed summer squash being hesitant as well. You speak of weeds but the garden is stunning even with the evil little things…
Thank you Frances. There's some terrible droughts across the planet :-( and I do appreciate that this cool, wet weather is preferable to the forest fires. My Dad lives in the tropics and he's had solid rain for weeks due to a typhoon.
@@stephaniehaffertyhomesteading - yep. Either drought or drowning. Alas.
As many others have said, your garden looks lovely - such a wide range of things! The weather is quite dry and hot where I am in France but I've had lots of issues with snails and slugs after a wet Spring. They seem to have taken a liking to chilli plants and bush beans, but ignore lettuce! I protect what I can with copper rings. They are totally effective and absolutely harmless, even to slugs and snails which they simply repel. I would really recommend them, especially around the base of single plants like your cabbages in the cage. And if you know about something effective against flea beetles, please share... they are a menace. I tried sprinkling chopped tansy and it worked ... for a day or so.
Funnily enough, I unpacked my copper rings a few days ago (there's still so much left to unpack...!) I don't have enough for all of my plants, but these will go round a few.
Best thing against flea beetle that I have found is enviromesh. They can't get through it. They were everywhere in Somerset. Here there's hardly any, but we do have all of the slugs in the world!!
There are parasitic wasps that feed on flea beetle, too.
What a shame you’ve had such mild and overcast weather! Regarding the slugs, do you have a product over there that is a natural ingredient based slug killer? In my country it’s pellets made from iron chelate (like what you would take if you’re anaemic). It does not harm earth worms, or other creatures. You sprinkle them sparingly and it is 100% effective against slugs and snails. It’s approved for organic gardening, as the pellets just break down as minerals for the soil.
Slugs and snails are a big problem for me. If I didn’t combat them this way, in my vast veggie garden, I may as well not garden at all. Best of luck and I hope you get some sunshine soon!
It has certainly been a soggy summer. Thank you, and I really hope we do as I am forgetting what sunshine is like!
I don't use any kind of slug pellet, they (those available in the UK) all harm soil life etc and I would be concerned about the potential harm to our hedgehogs here and other wildlife. Instead I aim for a balance between predators and prey here, such as thrushes to eat the snails, and also reduction of slug habitat near the main growing areas - which I don't have near that brassica cage! It's just been perfect weather for slugs...
@@stephaniehaffertyhomesteading fair enough. We don’t have those creatures here, so I understand where you’re coming from. Maybe you have to resort to some good old beer traps!
I hope the weather fines up for you soon, and that your back improves quickly. I look forward to the next video x
@@sura2047 I do hope so, at least there some sunshine forecast this week.
Great video. How are your Czech early aubergines doing? I’ve had one pear sized fruit- so tasty. The others have tiny fruit and after a few chilli nights the leaves are curling and going brown. They’re not happy.
My first aubergines - not the Czech ones but a grafted variety - were eaten by woodlice. After a very slow start the aubergines are all starting to grow into healthy plants and there's fruit forming.
Hi Stephanie, how do you know which plants should grow together?
I've been growing for years so have learned over time. Generally speaking most things are fine together and you just need to think about practicalities such as not growing something that will spread widely such as squash in a bed with small plants like lettuce, or tall plants which will shade heat and sun loving plants